Hymie Weiss

Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski (25 January 1898-11 October 1926), better known as Hymie Weiss, was a Polish-American mob boss who led the North Side Gang of Chicago, Illinois from 1924 to 1926, succeeding Dean O'Banion and preceding Vincent Drucci.

Biography
Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski was born on 25 January 1898 in Poland to a Catholic family, and he grew up in the US city of Chicago, Illinois after his family came to America. Weiss engaged in pickpocketing and petty crime as a teenager, and he befriended Irish-American criminal Dean O'Banion; he became a member of the North Side Gang under O'Banion. Weiss took over the gang after O'Banion was assassinated, and he was said to have been the only person that Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone feared. Weiss sought an alliance with fellow bootlegger Joseph Saltis against Capone during the gang wars of the 1920s, and Weiss was murdered along with one of his bodyguards when two Chicago Outfit gunmen armed with a shogtun and a submachine gun fired on them as they crossed State Street from their flower shop base.